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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Quintana Ro:Former police turned cartel boss its Doña Lety vs. Zetas

"Zetas, released information alleging that the Cártel de Cancún boss had been detained by police. Cartel members, believing the information, reacted and attacked the Attorney General’s office in that city."

There are no more
“gentlemen’s agreements” between authorities and criminal groups in Quintana
Roo, a change that has led to increased violence as the latter fight over
lucrative territory for drug dealing and extortion.

A federal report
obtained by the newspaper El Universal also revealed that an independent gang,
referred to as the Cártel de Cancún and integrated by several former judicial
officials and members of various other criminal groups, has under its control
the nightclubs, bars and hotels in the hotel zone of Cancún, in Puerto Morelos,
Alfredo V. Bonfil and Isla Mujeres.

The cartel, said to be
headed by former Federal Police officer Leticia Rodríguez Lara, is now
attempting to move into Playa del Carmen.

Doña Lety or La 40 as
the gang leader is known is believed to have controlled the drug trade in the
north of Quintana Roo for at least five years, and has also succeeded in
infiltrating police forces and the state Attorney General’s office.

In November Rodríguez,
48, recruited a senior official from
that office who is now her chief enforcer, the report said, noting that “not
only has the Attorney General’s office been infiltrated but it looks as if no
one wants to investigate her and much less catch her.”

However, the gang has
not been happy with that office’s recent changes in middle and senior
management, presumably because some of the people who had been moved out were
on its payroll.

All this has not gone
unnoticed by Los Zetas, one of four gangs with a presence in the state, the
others being Los Pelones, Cártel del Golfo and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación.

The Zetas have been
sidelined in recent years but are now moving to regain lost territory by clashing with Doña Lety, the report suggests.

There is a theory that
the shootings in Cancún a week ago were triggered by the Zetas, who released
information alleging that the Cártel de Cancún boss had been detained by police.
Cartel members, believing the information, reacted and attacked the Attorney
General’s office in that city.

Official figures from
some years ago would indicate that the region’s drug market is worth US $1.5
billion annually, says a researcher at the Autonomous University of Quintana
Roo who also believes Mexico must act and get to the root of the problem if it
wishes to avoid becoming a failed state.

Juan Carlos Arriaga
Rodríguez said Mexico is going through a process similar to what was seen in Colombia
and warned that there is currently no light at the end of the tunnel.

“The breakdown of the
Mexican political system is tremendous; never in history has there been so much
corruption . . . .” he said, claiming authorities are living in a world of
illusion in which governability is at risk due to the absence of a clear plan with
realistic objectives.

Worries about increased
violence will lead to a growing perception of insecurity, Arriaga said,
observing that such perceptions were rare in the past because the government
could control the information that was published.

But with social
networks that kind of control is impossible today, he said.

The researcher said
there is no “magic recipe” to address the situation, but pointed to criteria
such as the professionalization of security forces, the impartation of justice,
realistic plans and citizen participation as necessary elements.

Official response to
the shootings in Cancún and those the day before in Playa del Carmen has been
to send in more Federal Police.

Many of those will be
housed in a new police headquarters in Playa del Carmen, a 2.8-million-peso
facility whose first stone ceremony (similar to shoveling first dirt in ground
breaking) was laid Saturday.

El Universal reported
that more than 250 Federal Police were deployed to the state last year, 100 to
Chetumal and 150 to Cancún. But they were later shipped off to Chiapas, leaving
Quintana Roo without federal security.

77 comments:

Read this few days ago. Not surprised, former police . Knows the inns and outs of a ludicrous business opportunity. Took advantage of it. Cartel of Cancun. An independent group? Doubt it? Someone bigger is supplying the work and backing for her to operate.

I used to refuse to accept NARCO STATE, but I came to realize that it is true, Cancun and it's surrounding areas were protected from violence due to the visitors from all over the world, but it will soon become another acapulco, killings, beheadings etc. most of the people that live there around mercado 28 colonias are people from other parts of the country, workers if you will, that can easily be sucked into this illegal activity for a quick buck. if you can't protect your best asset, how can we expect Mexico to protect other parts of the country that have less value to the eyes of the world.

12:49 I have never seen mexican politicians get Presidential Pardons for drug trafficking in front of the whole nation, on all the country's tvs, much less using the excuse of "weapons for hostages" and then the US INTELLIGENCE AND GOVERNMENT rogue agents run to deposit THE QUOTAS in the banks...no, I have never seen that in mexico, I saw it on the US that so freely judges other nations people as "criminals".

7:3i if your wife or your daughter are hoes and work from your house, it does not mean you are a ho too, or if a burglar grts into your house it does not make your house a school of burglars...don't be a pendejo mijo, mexico is about many other things, that have nothing to do with drug trafficking that has always been the property of northamerican gabachos bent on blaming the biiig baaad ugly mexicans for the drug trafficking

12:49 IF all of mexico were a narco state, there would be no victims, everybody would be just moving product to the US, which is clearly not the case.--It is like on the US, not everybody is born a pendejo and then gets born again, noo, there are some geniuses there...

I thought there was ALWAYS incredible corruption in this country. IMHO Mexico was, and still is, the Number 1 on the most corrupted countries in Northern America. The same like Russia is Number 1 in Europe.

“The breakdown of the Mexican political system is tremendous; never in history has there been so much corruption” he said ...

@11:50 russia does control its territory chechen the same why you think russia fought two chechen wars the rebels where geting out of hand thanks to all mighty putin wich hes a great leader there might be corruption in russia but its controlled unlike mexico theres no central control everybody runs wild and does what they please

10:11Your own comment contradicts your point: if Russia did control all of its territory their would be no need for Chechen wars. Russia is incredibly corrupt and out of control and it doesn't control all of its territory.

7:55 there was much more drug promotion in the 80s, so much that "HE" ended in the hospital, on drug overdose, maybe speed, or cocaine, because "HE" no like syringes or smoking, but will walk to the moon if there are chances that there is money there...

The lion share of illicit profits are from drugs and it are those profits which is the source of corruption. Legalize all drugs and the situation will get much better.

Consider: after 30 years of WoD, drugs are cheaper, stronger and more plentiful than ever before. Nowadays ANYBODY practically EVERYWHERE can score ANY dope he/she likes, legalization will not make that accessability worse if implemented sensibly.

"The magic recipe" will never happen because EVERYONE in Mexico has to be fed up with violence and corruption. Similar to the vetting of the cartels in Colombia needs to happen to Mexico for any forward positive movement. Until then it will be the same song and dance in Mexico.

2:41 touristic centers are failing because of the pinchis turistas mariguanos, same as the US, the main problem is the secret payments and taxes and plaza fees, they leave the grameros killing and ripping off each other, they should be able to sue their bosses for minimum wages, and life insurance instead of getting caught and released by the polesias for "talking".By the way, the bikers that attacked the police station after the Blue Parrot murders found only one guard serving as bait and killed him, but the bikers "got caught, arrested and killed by about a hundred polesias" waiting for them, "because" of no "Doña Lety" there, but she may have been behind the polesias attack to BP, las setas are always robbing other people, pinchis maruchaneros corrientes,

According to the local QR paper she was backed by Sinaloa and it was cjng that came for her at C4. I guess she is getting protection from municipales and there were rumors she was being held there but not detained.

Authorities need to get to the root of the problem before it becomes a failed state...

If tourist weren't looking to get high business would not be be as lucrative for others to attempt a take over. You can't blame it all on the locals. there comes a Point in life where you need to be responsible and while on vacation you need to have self control and not consume drugs. No clients no dealers!

I was in Cancun this past summer and had wanted to go back to an amazing Resort. I will not go back to Quintana Ro since things are heated. It's not worth it. Unfortunately I'll be heading with friends to Jamaica or Dom Rep. Mexico needs to let Sinaloa run Mexico as it did for decades. Mexico doesn't have a drug problem it has a cultural problem and will never be fixed. Bring back the stability...be real about it with real solutions.

Apparently Jamaica and Dominica are even worse for crime and murders.Don't leave the resort.Cuba is supposed to be very safe for many year with mostly Euopeans and Canadians and no drugs which causes a lot of the problems.

@10:55AM Even with all these well thought out and intelligent comments we have they are hard enough to read and try to figure out what they say. I don't need any new words made up by a bunch of teenagers.